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DIAL 4-5444
STUDENT TRI WEEKLY
NEWSPAPER OF
TEXAS A. & M. COLLEGE
The Battalion
DIAL 4-5444
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPEB
OF THE CITY OF
COLLEGE STATIOH
122 ADMINISTRATION BLDG. VOLUME 41
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 19, 1942
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NO. 60
Quartermaster Corps Training Will Be Inaugurated
Enrollment to Begin Next
Semester; 50 Is Minimum
TSCW-ites Come Here Tomorrow Night
For Sophomore Ball; Walton Hall Opened Furnish y uimge
along
Military Walk
With Ken Bresnen
Opinion ia the queen
of the world.—Pascal
Question of the Week: What in
your opinion regarding the adop
tion of tan ties for wear with
khaki shirts.
F. D. Albritton, G Field Artillery
—I’m heartily in favor of the tan
tie being worn with khaki shirts.
Since A. & M. is preparing its
students for service in the army,
and since the tan tie is regulation
in the army, I think it is fitting
that we adopt it.
John R. Bannister, F Infantry—
I believe khaki ties should be worn
when khaki shirts and slacks are
both worn. When wool trousers are
worn, whether the shirts worn are
wool or khaki, the black tie makes
the best appearance.
Walter Butrill, C Field Artillery
—The black tie is better in my
opinion because it is distinctive. I
think the black tie identifies the
uniform of A. & M. from that of
the regular army. The dark tie
looks neater too. Many of our tra
ditions have been changed lately
and this one* may be next, but I
am not in favor of adopting the
tan tie.
Tom Leland, C CWS—Black ties
with khaki shirts have been worn
at A. & M. for many years and,
in my opinion, they look very neat.
I don’t think tan ties would make
enough improvement to merit the
trouble of changing over to them.
Lt Col Swearingen
To Talk at Meeting Of
Latin-American Club
Lt. Colonel L. E. Swearingen
will speak on the subject “Build
ing Our Fences in Latin Amer
ica,” at the regular meeting of the
Latin-American Seminar to be held
Thursday night, February 19, in
the Chemistry lecture room. The
meeting will begin at 8 o’clock and
the directors invite the student
body and general public to attend.
With attention focussed on our
relations with South and Latin
American countries Colonel Swear
ingen’s address has particular sig
nificance. The discussion will de
velop the social, economic and mil
itary importance of our relations
with the nations to our south.
Lt. Colonel Swearingen is a re
cent addition to the Military De
partment staff. Formerly head of
the Chemistry Department of the
University of .Oklahoma, he has a
wide background, with special
knowledge of Latin-American so
cial and economic problems.
Norma Jean Jahn *
Will Sing Numbers
On Ag Hit Parade
Members of the date committee
have arranged for nearly all of
the sophomore class of TSCW to
come to College Station for the
week-end to attend the Sophomore
Ball and the Corps Dance Saturday
night. Several ramps of Walton
Hall will be vacated to accomodate
the girls. Those on the date com
mittee are: Forrest Sharpe, Mel
ton Pollen, Herbert Haile and Joe
Maroney.
Music for the affair will be
furnished by Toppy Pearce and his
Aggieland orchestra, with Norma
Jean Jahn in her accustomed place
on the bandstand to render vocal
selections. Many of the pieces to be
played will be taken from the
favorites of the student body as
determined by the WTAW Hit
Parade.
Arrangements for the Sopho
more Ball tomorrow night in Sbisa
Hall are almost completed and a
Tickets for the dance were
printed before the college went
on Central War Time and con
sequently state that the dance
will be from 9 ’til 1. Under the
new time schedule, the Soph
omore Ball will start at 9:30
p.m. and last until 1:30.
large crowd is expected, Bob Phil
lips, president of the class an
nounced yesterday. Final arrange
ments and decorations will be com
pleted Friday afternoon.
Decorations for the ball have
beep planned by a committee con
sisting of Jay Cowen, Harry
Saunders, Kervin Giese and Leerie
Giese. A huge “44” suspended from
the ceiling will rotate slowly over
the heads of the dancers.
Tickets for the ball may still be
obtained from representatives in
each hall for $1.10. Seniors will
be admitted free.
Guests of the sophomore class
this week-end will be housed in
Walton hall. Ramps G, H, and I will
be vacated for the guests by 2 p.m.
Friday.
Nutritionist to Confer
With Extension Staff
Miss Miriam Birdseye of Wash
ington, D. C., nutritionist for the
Federal Extension Service, is on
the A. and M. campus today
to confer with workers of the Texas
extension headquarters staff and
of the Texas Agricultural Experi
ment Station.
Prior to coming to Texas Miss
Birdseye attended a meeting of the
Southern Agricultural Workers As
sociation in Memphis, Tenn., and
conferred with Extension Service
workers in Oklahoma and Arkan
sas. She will leave Thursday for a
similar visit in Louisiana.
Senior Section For
Brass Hats Only, So
Look Out for the 0 D
If you don’t wear a gold hat
cord, be careful where you sit when
attending the picture show in Guion
Hall. The senior section in that
building has been designated to
extend from row 11 back to the
middle cross aisle. The first two
rows in the middle balcony are also
for seniors only.
Freshmen, sophomores and jun
iors must keep out of this section
as this rule will be strictly enforc
ed henceforth.
Officers Here To
Examine Cadets
Four U. S. Army officers will
be here this afternoon to examine
the fourteen applicants which have
been selected for regular commis
sions after graduation. Two of the
officers are medical examiners.
The officers are Colonel H. A.
Finch, Engineers, from Texas
Tech; Major M. B. Durette, Infan
try, from the Eighth Corps area
headquarters in San Antonio, and
Captain John L. Houston, Medical
Corps, from Fort Sam Houston.
Another officer will be here but
the military department has not re
ceived word as yet as to whom it
will be.
The men who have been named
as eligible for 'regular commissions
are as follows: Shibley Azar Jr.,
Cavalry; John Randolph Banister
III, Infantry; Charles William
Bode, Infantry; Howard Horace
Brians, Cavalry; John Benjamin
Hancock, Field Artillery; Jack
Mitchell Holliday, Engineers; Ger
ald Raymond King, Coast Artillery;
Turney White Leonard, Infantry;
Cornelius Bradford Marsh, Jr.,
(See OFFICERS, Page 4)
Exes, Mothers
Join Forces To
To Be Open Parents’ Day;
TSCW Interior Decorators
Plan Furnishings as Project
For the second time in the his
tory of A. & M. ex-students will
be asked to contribute to a fund
for improvements of the college.
At the meeting of the ex-students
last Sunday held jointly with the
board of directors of the college,
the ex-students voted to aid in the
furnishing of the Y.M.C.A. lounge
now nearing completion.
They voted to give $1,000 from
their treasury and took up a col
lection among the board members
present of $575 for this purpose.
A campaign will be led by the
group among its membership for
the rest of the money needed to
furnish the lounge. This will
amount to approximately $2,300.
Various mothers clubs with
whom the ex-students are working
have already raised $1,265. Con
struction on the lounge is to be
completed by March 1 and furn
ishings are to be in by April 1
in time for Parents Day, Agricul
ture Day and Engineer’s Day.
A group of the T.S.C.W. seniors
studing interior decorating have
taken the lounge as a project and
are working out plans for decorat
ing the lounge.
A If Dept Auction
Brings High Price
A consignment of 52 cattle was
sold here Tuesday to approximate
ly 30 buyers who uaid an average
price of $271 for the 26 bulls and
26 cows. These Herefords were
consigned by 16 firms who are
members of the Mid-South Texas
Hereford Association to be sold
at auction.
The highest price paid for any
animal was $750 which was paid
by Jim Herring from McGreger
for a Hereford bull. R. L. Wheelock
from Corsicana paid the highest
(See AUCTION, Page 4)
Speaker
Caradine R. Hooton
Dallas Pastor Will
Speak to Students
And Local Citizens
Caradine R. Hooton will be a
guest speaker here during Relig
ious Emphasis week, February 22-
27. Hooton graduated from Min
eral Wells high school, Southwest
ern university (A.B.,) and Texas
university (LL.B.) after which he
coached football at Mineral Wells
high school and later practiced
law for three and a half years.
He entered the ministry in 1925,
and served as Education Director
Polk Street, Amarillo and served
as pastor successively at Sudan,
Fort Stockton, Stamford, and
Plainview. After one term as Dis
trict Superintedent he was assign
ed to Tyler Street Methodist
Church in Dallas, where he is now
hi his third year.
He was twice delegate to the
Methodist General Conferences,
Chairman of the Methodist Con-
fenrence Board of Education, Trus
tee of Southwestern university and
McMurray college, members of the
Future Program commission for
Texas Methodism, platform speak
er for a number of Youth Assem
blies, and Member of the Board of
Directors for the Texas Youth
Crusade.
Keeping Citizenry Calm, Air
Warden’s Chief Duty in Raid
Aggie Helps Sink German Sub
While Patroling Atlantic in Air
The tremendous thrill of a suc
cessful attack on an enemy subma
rine was experienced by Lieut.
Thomas C. Day, ’41, whose home is
at Blum, Hill County, Texas. Day
was navigation officer on a big
American patrol bomber which sur-
Two A&M Men Chosen
As Livestock Judges
For Fort Worth Show
Livestock judges who will pick
the champions and other prize-win
ning livestock at the Southwestern
Exposition and Fat Stock Show
were announced by John B. Davis,
secretary-manager of the Ft. Worth
show.
Among those selected were two
men who are connected with A. &
M., Roy W. Snyder, animal indus
try specialist, who will judge
sheep (medium wool), fat wether
lambs and darloads, and Fred
Hale, chief of swine husbandry
at the Agricultural Experiment
Station.
prised a German submarine in the
Atlantic recently. The Army Air
Force has announced that the sub
marine is considered certainly to
have been sunk.
The American bomber sighted a
life boat filled with survivors of
the S. S. China Arrow, which had
been torpedoed. Continuing their
vigal, the fyers soon sighted the
submarine attempting to make
speed on the surface in the probable
belief that no patrols would be out
due to heavy rain and stormy
weather .
In telling of his part in the at
tack, Lieut. Day said, “It was
tough working with cold figures in
such hot excitement. I had to check
and recheck positions on the oil
slick that we found on the life
boats and finally on the submarine.”
The American bomber carried a
crew of six. Lieut. Day took pet
roleum engineering at A. & M. for
three years, dropping out after the
1940 school year to enter the Am
erican Air Service.
By KEN BRESNEN
An air raid warden’s primary
duty is to protect the lives and
property of the people of his com
munity. When the “red” alarm is
sounded indicating that the attack
ing planes are overhead or will be
within a few minutes, each warden
gives the individual alarm to each
household in his sector by knocking
on the door and blowing five blasts
on his whistle or by some other
pre-arranged signal.
After the alarm has been given
each warden then returns to his
designated spot until the danger
has passed so that he may direct
the safety measures which must
be taken. When fires break out he
notifies the auxiliary fire depart-
Consolidated School
Program to Be Held
Dedicating New Plant
The new auditorium of A. & M.
Consolidated school will be formal
ly opened to the public with a
family night get-to-gether Thurs
day at 7 p.m.
Attractions of the opening will
be a community supper served by
the Consolidated School Mothers
Club, followed by a stunt night in
which all those attending may par
ticipate.
The auditorium, which has been
under construction for some time,
will be open for inspection by the
public, and its use to the school
explained.
Mrs. Ford Munnerlyn will be in
charge of the music, Spike White
of the sports events and games,
and Mrs. A. B. Stevens of the
dinner arrangements.
ment, and then proceeds to the
scene of the fire himself. In case
of an incendiary bomb, he must
know how to control the initial
heat from setting fire to surround
ing objects. Then when it has
burned approximately sixty sec
onds and is beginning to cool, this
guardian of life and property takes
steps to extinguish the blaze.
If additional help is needed in
the sector, he notifies the zone
warden who immediately dis
patches any help which is avail
able.
Much additional loss of life is
often caused by panic and need
less excitement. Therefore the air
raid warden must be well versed
in technique of building morale.
If he can keep the citizenry calm,
the civil authorities in charge will
be able to operate with much
greater efficiency.
Federal standards demand that
a qualified air raid warden receive
five hours training in gas defense,
ten hours training in first aid and
five hours in incendiary bomb con
trol.
Seventy-five College Station res
idents have completed the first aid
course under Bart Phillips, a quali
fied instructor. One hundred have
completed the Gas Course A in
gas mask care and use, according
to the office of the police commit
tee. This phase of gas defense was
taught by Capt. Johnson, instruct
or in chemical warfare.
In demonstrating the use of gas
masks, each person present was
asked to enter a chamber filled
with tear gas wearing a gas mask.
Then each was asked to go back
into the chamber and at a given
signal to remove the mask and
leave at will. “They didn’t lose
any time in getting out,” said a
member of the police committee.
Through such demonstrations a
clear and complete understanding
of the conduct of an air raid alarm
is achieved.
Though the job is a tremendous
undertaking, the College Station
auxiliary police force apd air raid
warden committee will be fully
trained and ready to go into action
when the state of Texas goes on
the alert March 7.
Orders Concerning
Passes, Inspections .
Issued by Welty
Orders from the commandant’s
office yesterday governing passes
and inspection of quarters state
that. effective every day, from
now on, except after breakfast on
Sundays all dormitory rooms will
’
be thoroughly policed between
7:40 a.m. and 8:05 a.m. and be
ready for inspection by tactical of
ficers at 8:05 a.m. and will be kept
ready for inspection until 1 p.m.
daily.
In regard to passes the new or
ders state that individual passes
will not be accepted by the com
mandant’s office and passes will
not be accepted from the first
sergeants after 6 p.m. Wednesday
of each week.
If a student should get a pass
and then decide not to use it, the
pass must be turned back to the
commandant’s office not later than
6 p.m. Friday of each week. Other
wise, this student will be subject
to disciplinary action.
All passes except in cases of
emergency must be submitted to
the commandants office through
the first sergeant.
Basic ROTO Course Must Be Complete
Before Eligible to Sign for New Course
Organization will begin immediately on a Quartermaster Corps
Senior R. O. T. C. Unit here in addition to the seven branches of thp
service already established. Enrollment in the course will begin at the
first of the semester beginning June 1. A minimum of 50 men will be
required to start the course, and the course will enroll not more than
100 men for training.
To be eligible for enrollment in
the course, students must be able
to fulfill the requirements for ap
pointment as a Second Lieutenant
in the Quartermaster Reserve
Corps before attaining the age of
30. Students must have completed
the basic ROTC course in some eth
er branch of the service. This lim
its enrollment in the course to jun
iors and seniors and there will be
no freshmen or sophomores in the
Quartermaster unit.
The applicant cannot hold a
commission in another arm of the
service. The course will normally
cover a two-year period, however,
curtailment is authorized as provid
ed in previous orders for students
who are enrolled in school and who
will complete the requirements for a
degree in less than two academic
years.
Enrollment is limited to bona
fide full time students enrolled
for the purpose of attaining a de
gree.
An instructor to work under Col
onel M. D. Welty, P. M. S. & T., will
be recommended by the Quarter
master General and this recommen
dation will be submitted to Colo
nel Welty.
The cost of the course will be
borne for the first year by the
school, but after this first year,
necessary equipment and suppies
will be provided by the war depart
ment.
Highway Short Course
Not to Be Held
Due to War Efforts
The Highway Engineering Short
Course which has been held for
17 years and is one of the most
important meetings on the calen
dar o fthe Texas Agricultural and
Mechanical College, will not be
held this year, it was announced
by Dean Gibb Gilchrist.
National Scholastic
Fraternities Voted
In at Club Meeting
Hope to Get Nation
Wide Academic Prestige;
Committees Visit Deans
By an overwhelming vote it was
decided at the meeting of the
Scholarship Honor society held
last Tuesday night in the physics
lecture room, to bring national
scholarship honor fraternities to
the A. & M. campus.
Committees of three men each
were appointed to visit the deans
of each school and make the nec
essary arrangements for opening
chapters of the various honor fra
ternities in their respective
schools.
Unity between the scholarship
fraternities will be mainttained by
retaining the Scholarship Honor
society as a connecting link be
tween the schools.
These honor fraternities are
strictly based upon scholastic
achievement, and should not be
confused in any way with social
fraternities.
Behind the, move to bring these
organizations here was the idea
that national recognition cquld be
brought to A .& M. for the out
standing scholars which could not
be obtained from the Scholarship
Honor Society as it is only a local
organization.
‘1 Didn’t Know What
Time It Was’ Offered
As Theme of New Time
Students at the University of
Houston have suggested that their
theme song be changed to “Night
and Day,” or “Nightie Night,” since
the new central war time has gone
into effect. Now that school starts
before the day gets well on its way,
they insist that they are as much
in the dark about their class work
as ever. Some insist that there is
no difference between night school
and “daytime” classes now except
that the latter start later (much,
later) at night.
A & M to Act as Key Center of War i
Information and Training for Million
A. & M. has been asked by the Federal Security Agency, U. S.
Office of Education, Washington, to act as one of the key Centers of
Information and Training in Texas, President T. O. Walton announced
today.
Dr. Walton has appointed the Center of Information and Training
Committee headed by Dr. Ide P. Trotter, which will function under the
general supervision of Dean F. C.**
Bolton. Other committee members
are Dr. T. F. Mayo, C. O. Spriggs,
G. B. Wilcox, Dr. F. W. Jensen,
Prof. V. M. Faires, Cadets Ransom
D. Kenny, Stephen C. Kaffer and
Walter W. Cardwell; and G. Byron
Winstead.
Organization meeting of the
committee was held Tuesday in
Dr. Mayo’s office and subcommit
tee assignments were issued.
Dr. Mayo will be in charge of
the War Information Center which
will be located in the rear of the
main entrance foyer of the Cush
ing Memorial Library. The War
Information Center will be divided
into several categories with fac
ulty-student committees volunteer
ing time to work in arranging dis
play of materials, counseling speak
ers, writers, teachers and others
in use of the available materials,
in organizing mobile displays for
conferences and meetings and lead-
(See CENTER, Page 4)
Horticulture Graduate
Experiments on Plums
Myron D. Bryant, graduate
student in horticulture, will soon
be able to give some definite in
formation on the way in which
Bruce plums are pollanated, upon
completion of his experiments
started this week at Grapeland.
By using screen wire cages,
honeybees and flowers from anoth
er variety of plum, Bryant is go
ing to determine the exact method
by which the flowers of the prolific
Bruce plum get their poTen.
In order to check the locality
factor involved in the experiment,
Bryant will duplicate the exper
iments on some Bruce plums at the
college Horticulture Farm. This
particular variety of plum matures
early each year, therefore it com
mands a much higher price than
the later maturing varieties.